Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.